Harsh

Famous quotes containing the word harsh:

“Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)

“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness—a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

“I do not care for such speech in the midst of ills; harsh words, even when just, still sting.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)